Astronomy (Page 7)

Dancing With the Stars Over the Ancient City of Teotihuacan, Mexico

First the big dipper drifts into view, then the stars...

Eta Aquarid Shooting Stars, Messengers From Halley's Comet, at Their Peak

While the Orionid meteor shower in October is famous as...

Saturn, Ready for Its Closeup

Over the past few weeks we’ve given readers eyeful upon...

Watch Water Become Zero-Grav Jello on the International Space Station

If you get a cloth dripping wet in the absence of gravity...

Three Years in Three Minutes: Whirling Sun Sparks and Flares in Entrancing Video

The sun is a wondrous thing, enabling Mother Earth to be...

Earth Day: Stunning Aurora Borealis Video Highlights Just How Small We Are

The sun is spurting all manner of plasma this year and next...

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Astronomy

Peaking Orionid Meteors Give Spectacular Show October 20-21

ICTMN Staff

October 20, 2012

It's that time of year again, when Mother Earth's orbit takes us through the remants of the tail of Halley's Comet to give us one of the year's most spectacular meteor showers: the...

Sacred Meteorites Under Glass: Tribes and First Nations Fight for Spiritual Integrity

ICTMN Staff

October 16, 2012

In the Native community, deep-space rocks are not just astronomical curiosities; they are sacred objects...

Video Rapture: Time-Lapse Photography Comes Alive

ICTMN Staff

October 14, 2012

Filmmaker and director Tom Lowe has turned time-lapse photography into cinematographic art, and that is nowhere demonstrated more breathtakingly than in his movie TimeScapes, which...

Final Chance This Year to Explore the Magnificent Ancient Native American Newark Octagon Earthworks

ICTMN Staff

October 14, 2012

"Two thousand years ago, Native Americans built one of the most amazing monuments of antiquity in the place we now call Newark, Ohio," says Brad Lepper, Curator of Archaeology for ...

Willamette Meteorite Chunk Part of Largest Meteorite Auction Ever in NYC

ICTMN Staff

October 13, 2012

We’ve been awash in meteorites lately, what with asteroids flying by and meteor showers abounding this month. (Meteorites are what meteors become once they land...